A Six-Word Memoir® is the story of your life—some part of it or all of it—told in exactly
six words.

In classrooms and boardrooms,
churches and synagogues, veteran's groups
and across the dinner table, Six-Word Memoirs
have become a powerful tool to catalyze
conversation, spark imagination or simply
break the ice.

Here on Six Words,
we offer a simple platform to share the short,
sharp story of your life, as well as provide daily
prompts to share your six-word takes on the topics of
our times.

More than half a million short stories have
been shared here.
Read more about six.

Nearly a decade ago, I graduated college with a general music degree, fully expecting never to use it in the "real world." Originally with dreams of attending law school, after working for the government as a field supervisor, then a contract specialist, and eventually as a driver's license examiner, I could find no job to cure a growing void within my soul. Was this life? This endless torment of manuals and cubicles and people who care nothing for me except the product I create within their corporate-defined mold? Then, last summer, in the community newspaper was an ad - to which I responded tentatively, because the position was not one I'd ever seen myself accepting. After interviewing and being hired on the spot, and after accepting the job with reservations: six months later, I have never been prouder and more excited to tell you I am the K-12 General Music and Choir Teacher at Birchwood Schools. Finally, after all my searching, life brought me back to where I was supposed to be all along - showing others that there is such a thing as fulfillment, and we each take our own, sometimes extremely diverted path to get there.